One rec today, a long and wonderful read: The Earth and Everything Under by K.M. Ferebee (in Shimmer Magazine). I just read this story last night (it appeared last year) and was struck by a strange, melancholy sense of beauty. I absolutely love the way Ferebee writes! She creates a strange world both like and […]
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Sunday recs: pirates, space, ghuls
Sunday recs! Three stories I’ve enjoyed lately: With a Golden Risha by P. Djéli Clark (in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly) – a fun epic tale of air pirates and music. I enjoy it when music is used to further plot. Monsters in Space by Angela Ambroz (in Shimmer) – featuring an extremely entertaining narrator, such an […]
Blast from the past: Writing advice from Sara aged 13
I was randomly browsing a couple of my old diaries last night, and came across a rather interesting entry from when I was 13. In it I angst profusely about how my stories are shit: my plots are shit because I don’t plan them in advance, my sentences sound terrible, I’ll never write anything decent! […]
Watching the City origami chapbook!
Yay! My mini-chapbook for the Origami Poetry Project is out! Well, it’s been out since last week, but since I was away and internetless at the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival,(*) I only found out about this last night when I got back. My chapbook Watching the City is on the home page right now, but […]
My novelette “Moss” out in Silver Blade!
Eeeep! I didn’t realise that my novelette “Moss” had already appeared in Silver Blade Magazine – but it has! This is my longest published story to date – a novelette, eeee! I feel so happy it’s out and I can share it with everyone! Read “Moss” here! Note: trigger warning for (implied) incest: the story […]
Sunday recs: The Goblin Emperor
A novel for today’s Sunday recs: I just read Katherine Addison’s novel The Goblin Emperor and was, quite frankly, blown away. I haven’t loved a novel this much in ages! It was the perfect escape amidst a very busy couple of weeks. I may or may not have uttered a “noooooo” when I realised the […]
Writing music, writing dance
Do you have things that you constantly try to capture in writing, but only rarely succeed, and if so, only partially? I have several – well, everyone probably does – but the two that I struggle the most to capture are music and dance. I’m deeply into the contemporary Finnish folk music and dance scene; […]
Poems, poems! (inkscrawl & origami)
The June issue of inkscrawl is out! (Well, it came out last week already, but I was busy travelling so didn’t have the chance to post about it.) Huzzah! It looks wonderful and I can’t wait to read the rest of the poems. So happy to be a contributor – I’ve loved inkscrawl for years. […]
Sunday recs: Recent faves
Here’s some stories I’ve read and really enjoyed these past few days: Forestspirit, Forestspirit by Bogi Takács (in Clarkesworld) – a great SF piece, and superyay for nonbinary character and nonviolence! The Cure by Malinda Lo (in the new issue of Interfictions) – feat. a great atmosphere and creepy (based on history) hysteria cures. Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s […]
Lengthening nights
During May a lingering flu, grant applications, and other PhD work basically ate up all my energy. But now I’ve been getting into the writing groove again. I finished and submitted a story on Monday in a glorious frenzy. I submitted two more stories yesterday. I’ve been dipping my toes into poetry again. I’m pondering […]